Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

Buh Lion, him say him gwine fine out who de tief yiz, an who de man wuh cut eh head off an skin um.

Who acts: Buh, de tief yiz · What happens: say, yiz, man · To what, where: eh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, de tief yiz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fine	nsubj
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yiz	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 fine	compound:prt
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 yiz	nsubj
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 yiz	compound
12	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yiz	amod
13	yiz	yiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 man	nsubj
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 man	compound
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yiz	conj
19	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	20 cut	discourse
20	cut	cut	X	ExtPos=PROPN	18 man	appos
21	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 head	det
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	26 um	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 um	det
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh	eh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	yiz				who nsubj	tree rules
3	man		de tief yiz and a de man			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 52